Electro-Voice ND468

I have been playing guitar and harmonica over 30 years. I have done very little recording. I use the mike for running my Fender Deluxe Reverb through the PA.

The mike has a nice full warm tone that reproduces the amp's tone quite well. The sound guys noticed a brighter and fuller tone than the famous Shure and also the Ev 478. It cost twice as much as the others but with over $5000 in my amp, harps, guitar and effects what's another $100. I like the compact swivel shape also.

I have been making music on and off for 10 years.
I have sound engineering training and have played in bands for about 15 years. I am recording into a mac g-4 from a presonus firepod via firewire.(which maybe the best pre amp for under $1000) I using the garage band program at this point but will be switching tologic very soon. Listening equipment is krk rp-5's.

The ev nd468 is truely a great dynamic mic. I use it for recording tom's on my tama starclassic. These things are great! Tom's sound like tom's and not suitcases. Also I mic my 2x12 cab for my guitar and it really seems to pick up crunch very well. Tight and defined.Honestly let your ears be the boss. For me this mic is really a great product especially when you are on a budget.

I've been playing guitar for 17 years and "playing live and recordind" for 10. I've played on a few demos, a cd, and several live recordings. I have most recently recorded straight to a Mackie 16 channel board(along with the rest of my band) > directly to a cd recorder (and on a few occacions to an adat machine). My main source of opinion is using my mics in a "live" scenerio. I used a pair of shure sm57's for a long time (I do still like them), until a local music store picked up a line of EV mics. I tried the 468 live and A/B'd it with a '57 and immediatly fell in love with the EV. The EV seems to capture a true-er tone of my guitar amp through the P.A. It also sounds "fatter" and more "full" on recordings I have made. I also found that there is a night and day difference on mic'ing the drums. These mic's seem to sound more "natural" and less "colored" than a standard sm57. Immediatly after I heard/borrowed the 468 for my gig, I bought 2 and used my '57 as a back-up. I am mainly a guitar player, but believe me, I know tone, am very picky about my gear, and have good ears. I would recommend this to anyone looking to "up-grade" from a standard sm57.

This is a dynamic mic suited for guitars, and/or percussion. I mainly use my 2 to mic my 2 4x12 cabinets for live gigs. I chose this model for it's sound. It has a wider range of frequency than my sm57 that I had been using.

I've been playing drums since I was 9 yrs old. My first recordings are of my drumkit using headphones as mics on a old tube taperecorder with reals. My specialism is probably recording drums. If have recorded hours and hours of music (tape-cassette quality) in the 90' with a friend to get through highschool. Then came the 4-track and later the 8-track cassette recorders I used extensively. After that I joined a band and have been in and out a studio on several occasions and observing their techniques. The first thing I knew I had to upgrade were the mics.

Half a year ago I purchased a whole new set up including these Beyer Dynamic Opus 87 for use on the toms. I use a MOTU 828mkII for AD and as a mixing-console and it's connected to my powerbook running MOTU DP 4.12. I listen to Alesis monitor One's (active) for reference and I do some pre-mix work on my way to work in the bus using Beyer Dynamic
DT 770 (wow those headphones totaly spoil you for life !) It looks ridiculous to the commuters but what the hell . . I have a Berigher ADAT-mic pre-amp (ADA8000) that give's me an extra 8-mic chanels and 8 extra line-outs. All this is fit toghter with a headphone amplifier for group-sesion recordings. My main mics are two C1 from StudioProjects.

It's a dynamic cardioid instrument microphone. 'Instrument' because it it looks like an egg caught between two steal fingers. It's not elegant to hold in your hand but very usefull to capture my snare-drum. I hardly have any space left in my drumkit for microphones and my snaredrum is teh worst in that matter. It affects my drumming technique (I have to beat around a mic): I use the rim every normal snare-beat (2's and 4's). it has become my trademark snare-sound. Of-course in brakes or in subtile pieces of a song I change that to create depth.

Enough drumtalk. I had my mind set on a beyerdynamic opus 87 for my snare but it's a condenser mic with (if I remember it correctly) 125 DB limit. Naive as I was back then I thought that it would not snand my 'killer-snare' so I went for a dynamic mic with a small form-factor that could handle high output ( correct me I am wrong but I thought this EV could handle 145 DB). Further more my wife has an ND-series vocal mic that, in my cassette era, I used for everything and I remembered that it made my snare sound really great compared to the 'standard' sm57. So EV was the mic of choice in my new line-up.

It is a great mic for a dynamic mic but I found out that the Opus 87 could easily handle my not so killer snare (killer as in kill eardrum). This ND-468 does have the right bulge in frequency to emphasize my typical high-pitch snare-drum. It's a little bit a luxury-problem: my snare sound great but using the opus also makes a lot of sound/sense.

I have tried it on a guitar-amp does it like a descent mic should do but I also have a C1 from Studio-Projects that I prefer for that kind of stuff. It's small size is the only fact that remain set it apart from the other dynamic mics.